Erin Hope had a follow

Erin Hope had a follow-up CT scan yesterday at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. Preliminary reports state that it looks very good and the doctors are very pleased. After the scan, we ran into one of Erin Hope's surgeons in the hallway. (We believe God put him there right after her scan.) He was walking with one of his residents and he stopped and talked with us. He asked if we were going to be doing any more chemo and we said that it depends on the scan that she just had. He asked did they have it ready and we told him we thought so. He stopped what he was doing and said "lets go look at them" and turned the opposite way he was previously going and walked with us. We had to go back to the oncology clinic and he said that he could not pull up her scans on the computer up there. So, he got off on another floor to look at them and said he would call the oncology clinic to let us know the results. When w! e got up there, Erin Hope's blood work results were back and the counts were back down. The decision was made to admit her long enough to receive a blood transfusion. The surgeon called back up telling us that both he and the radiologists reviewed her scans and they look very good! Praise the Lord! The tumor board at Baptist Hospital was to meet yesterday and our guess would be that she won't have to have anymore chemo. We have not heard officially yet.

It took a couple of hours to get the blood ready to transfuse so we went to eat. We were very hungry. It was around 3:30 in the afternoon and we had not had anything to eat since breakfast. We left Baptist Hospital last night around 9:15 and got home without any problems. As many of you know, we had a major snow and ice storm knocking out power to over 2 million homes in our state. Thank God our power has stayed on with the exception of a couple of "flickers".